Feedback
This online scrapbook is still (September 2024) evolving, still a draft for consultation and feedback, not a finished product. After further reflection, and in the light of comments and suggestions from others, it will in due course be amended, expanded and tidied.
If all goes reasonably well, it will be formally launched in spring or summer 2025.
Please write to feedback@patience-and-passion.org
All kinds of comment are invited – positive or critical, encouraging or cautionary, long or short, conversational or academic, anecdotal or discursive, signed or anonymous.
By all means send memories and reminiscences of your own, whether additional or alternative, supportive or challenging.
Extracts from email messages and facebook comments, September 2024
- This wondrous archival scrapbook! I have very much enjoyed dipping into it and finding old friends that have influenced me over the years … and very much look forward to reading more. (Specialist in global citizenship education)
- So much to explore, and so useful for the many striving for progressive education and equality in the field these days. Love and respect! (Specialist in history education)
- Thanks. I'm among the many teachers who have been inspired to think of their work as a daring adventure into a just and peaceful future with a generation still being formed. What a difference it makes. Forever grateful. (Specialist in religious education)
- It is a resource, an archive to be proud of and for historical researchers to study. (Professor of sociology)
- Amazing, committed, compassionate (Former teacher)
- Really awesome, and so important that this has been put together. I will wonder through it with memories and interest.
(Specialist in Islamic education) - I remember the numerous conversations that began through conferences in the ILEA, Haringey, Leeds, and the RAISE project as well as DfE conferences and projects. This compilation is wonderful. (Local authority chief inspector)
- The work reflected here has inspired and informed me for the past 40 years about the richness of our multicultural and multiethnic Britain. (Lecturer in education)
- The Patience & Passion archive looks really good. Really well-designed. It's wonderful to have all this work in one place - and this is an enormously valuable resource for educators and activists, now and for future decades. There is so much here to learn from! (Specialist in antiracist education)
- Web-based and readily accessible. Great for all of us to read and refer to. (Director of a youthwork charity)
- The title is interesting and has a pull factor … heartening to know that you have persisted in telling the story behind Brent's DPRE. [Development Programme for Race Equality] (Ofsted inspector)
- I've just read 'It was worth staying' - a beautiful piece of writing. It's really brought home how much times have changed since those comments from teachers on South Asian and West Indian students … And how much the work has been done to directly impact the way members of my generation have been able to move through the education system and not experience such overt racism. Thank you so much. (A recent graduate)